Reef Action Team 2017

A dedication to Rob Stewart In March 2015 the Turks and Caicos Islands had the honour of hosting Rob Stewart, world renowned shark conservationist and film maker. While on his visit here, he impacted the lives of a number of students, in particular students from the British [...]Continue Reading →

RATs - Week 12 - Cleaning Up the Mangroves On Friday 7th of April the RATs group headed over to Big Blue Unlimited where we kayaked over to the mangroves with our big black baggies to clean up all the garbage that is killing our wild life. [...]Continue Reading →

Search and Recovery Dive Last week during our RATs session we all went to Big Blue and took part in the Search and Recovery Dive, which is part of the Advanced Open Water course. It was my last RATs dive for this year and involved new skills, [...]Continue Reading →

RATs week 10: At the Amanyara Cinema On March 24th the RATs team took a break from all the diving and the clean ups and went to watch Turtle: The Incredible Journey in the Amanyara’s movie cinema. This cinema is in fact the only one on the [...]Continue Reading →

Fish Identification in Turks and Caicos Islands Sadly the weather, this Friday, was not on our side. Plans had to be changed and so instead of doing our Search and Rescue dive training, we took the opportunity to broaden our knowledge of reef fish in the Turks [...]Continue Reading →

RATs week 8 - Advanced Open Water Course Deep Dive Last Friday, the RATS team went on a deep dive, a compulsory part of the training for those on the Advanced Open Water Course (a chance for the rest of us to play with eggs underwater!). We split [...]Continue Reading →

Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive, Oliver Downes (Yr9) During last week’s dive, we did the peak performance buoyancy section of the AOW diving course. Some people on the RATS team have already completed their Advanced course but joined in with those being assessed anyway. The people that did [...]Continue Reading →

Tied up in knots! By Jessica Saunders (Yr 9) On Friday the 24th of February, BWIC 'Reef Action Team' (RAT's) with Miss Rankin (head of RAT's) headed over to Big Blue Unlimited where we had a lesson in seamanship, more specifically, learning some very useful knots! The [...]Continue Reading →

RATs Week Five: Night diving Naryan Kalliecharan , Year 9 The RATs team from the British West Indies Collegiate, along with Miss Rankin, Marcia Gutierrez from Big Blue, Jackie Walker from Amanyara, and Don Stark from the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund, were fortunate enough to go [...]Continue Reading →

BWIC Reef Action Team (RATs!) 2017 Week Four: Mangrove mania! Mangrove education in Turks and Caicos Islands On Friday the 3rd of February, the Reef Action Team and members of the Turks and Caicos Islands Department of Environment and Coastal Resources, Amanyara, and Big Blue Unlimited planted [...]Continue Reading →

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